Martin Donovan(II)
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Martin Donovan is an award winning actor, writer and director. Donovan’s film career was launched in the 1990’s with Hal Hartley, one of the iconic figures in the 90’s American independent film movement. Among Hartley films Martin appeared in are the Sundance Film Festival winner Trust, Cannes Film Festival favorites Simple Men and Amateur starring opposite Isabelle Huppert as well as Surviving Desire, Flirt and The Book of Life.
In 1996 he starred opposite Nicole Kidman in Academy Award winning writer/director Jane Campion’s The Portrait of a Lady for which he won the National Society of Film Critic’s Award for Best Supporting Actor. ¬¬ In 2011 Martin also starred in, wrote and directed the critcally acclaimed Collaborator with David Morse and Olivia Williams which won the prestigious International Federation of Film Critics’ prize (FIPRESCI) for Best Picture at the 2011 Karlovy Vary Interntational Film Festival.
Donovan was recently seen in the critical hit Blackberry as well as opposite John David Washington in Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, his second collaboration with Nolan after Insomnia where he played Al Pacino’s police partner. Other current films include the acclaimed horror dramady Come to Daddy opposite Elijah Wood and The Art of Racing in the Rain with Amanda Seyfried. Martin appeared as Mitchell Carson in Marvel’s Ant-Man with Paul Rudd, and Evangeline Lily. He shared the Robert Altman Award for ensemble acting at the 2015 Independent Spirit Awards for Paul Thomas Anderson’s Oscar nominated Inherent Vice.
Donovan has currently reteamed with Nicole Kidman playing her husband in Taylor Sheridan’s series Lioness on Paramount +. Among a long list of television credits Donovan is perhaps best known as the corrupt DEA agent and Mary-Louise Parker’s love interest in Showtime’s Emmy Award-Winning series Weeds for which he garnered his first SAG Award nomination for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a comedy series. His second SAG Award nomination came for best ensemble in a dramatic series for his role as Zoe Kravitz’s father on season two of Big Little Lies.
In 1996 he starred opposite Nicole Kidman in Academy Award winning writer/director Jane Campion’s The Portrait of a Lady for which he won the National Society of Film Critic’s Award for Best Supporting Actor. ¬¬ In 2011 Martin also starred in, wrote and directed the critcally acclaimed Collaborator with David Morse and Olivia Williams which won the prestigious International Federation of Film Critics’ prize (FIPRESCI) for Best Picture at the 2011 Karlovy Vary Interntational Film Festival.
Donovan was recently seen in the critical hit Blackberry as well as opposite John David Washington in Christopher Nolan’s Tenet, his second collaboration with Nolan after Insomnia where he played Al Pacino’s police partner. Other current films include the acclaimed horror dramady Come to Daddy opposite Elijah Wood and The Art of Racing in the Rain with Amanda Seyfried. Martin appeared as Mitchell Carson in Marvel’s Ant-Man with Paul Rudd, and Evangeline Lily. He shared the Robert Altman Award for ensemble acting at the 2015 Independent Spirit Awards for Paul Thomas Anderson’s Oscar nominated Inherent Vice.
Donovan has currently reteamed with Nicole Kidman playing her husband in Taylor Sheridan’s series Lioness on Paramount +. Among a long list of television credits Donovan is perhaps best known as the corrupt DEA agent and Mary-Louise Parker’s love interest in Showtime’s Emmy Award-Winning series Weeds for which he garnered his first SAG Award nomination for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a comedy series. His second SAG Award nomination came for best ensemble in a dramatic series for his role as Zoe Kravitz’s father on season two of Big Little Lies.
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